Tuesday, August 26, 2014

McDeserve a break today? Nyet!

Vladimir
Zhirinovsky, the rabble-rousing leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party,
on Friday called for a McDonald's sign in the Moscow city center to be
ripped down, ITAR-Tass reported.

"We
need to get rid of this sign, this disgusting sign has to go. What gives
them the right to teach us how to make pirozhki [stuffed Russian
buns]!" Zhirinovsky exclaimed to the few dozen people assembled at a
political rally calling for the downfall of U.S. fast food and a return
to the flag of the Russian Empire.

But some have studied economics;

Others
had a less sanguine view of the matter, such as Evgeny Roizman, the
mayor of Yekaterinburg and a prominent opposition figure.

"If we
consider ourselves a great country and a great power, then these are
petty deeds, on the level of mice," Roizman said in an interview on
Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, news portal Ura.ru reported.

"It's a
blow to our own people — to consumers, for one, and obviously all the
suppliers are locals. Hitting your own people doesn't make any sense,"
he said.